View of Paris from the Terrace of the Pavillon de Brimborion, 1810/1812

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite with touches of white gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 63.2 x 96.1 cm (24 7/8 x 37 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Ide

Accession Number

1999.40.1

Artists / Makers

Carle Vernet (artist) French, 1758 - 1836

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper right verso in chalk: (not deciphered); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 61 1/2 + 94 1/2 ouverture

Provenance

Prince Kourakine, Russia, c. 1810; E. Dejardin Verdinder, France, 1904. Private collection near Orléans until 1992; (Didier Aaron, Inc., New York, 1993); Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Ide, San Francisco, 1993; gift to NGA in 1999.

Associated Names

Ide, John Jay, Mrs.
Kourakine, Prince
Private Collector c/o Didier Aaron, Inc.
Verdinder, E. Dejardin

Exhibition History

2012: Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 1.